Re: [gtk-list] Re: more widget size problems/questions

[Havoc Pennington <rhp zirx pair com>]

On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, brent verner wrote:
> 
> i agree that the WM *should* do this work, since it knows the actual
> size of the window before it is visible. i don't know much about
> Xlib (or anything else for that matter), but i wonder if the WM knows
> who the parent of the new window is. if so, it should be fairly
> simple to constrain the position of the new window to within the
> boundary of the parent window.
>

The WM knows the parent from gtk_window_set_transient_for(), so it should
be able to do this.
 
> i don't know enough about gtk internals, but it _seems_ to me
> that there must be some way to have gtk_widget_realize() 
> make the appropriate requests for size that is being done
> by gtk_widget_show()...
> 

The thing is that the size allocation process doesn't happen until the
toplevel window is on the screen (when GtkWindow gets a configure_event).

At least, I think that's how it works.

Havoc